The sad news started flowing over the weekend — local intensive-care registered nurse Hailey Isabel Jasso, only 23, a Pharr native, died in a hunting accident Friday up in Kenedy County, on the coast, just north of Willacy County.
So, State Democrat Chair Gilberto Hinojosa will step down next March from the seat he’s held for the past 12 years while remaining out of touch with his core constituency.
The wasted money on a special election, thanks to a petition, courtesy of Ground Game Texas, and the possibility of McAllen residents losing control of the city to out-of-the-area PACs is enough to drive me to drink.
For anyone who’s been watching Donna ISD school board politics, its legal problems, problems with the Texas Education Agency over the past 10 or 20 years, there are times when it resembled a novella, and not a very good one at that.
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